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Marco island, we have one little spot -- what corner, do you know exactly where you are, steve? >> reporter: yeah. we're right on fifth avenue, and props to the -- [inaudible] for having an amazing, safe hotel and for taking us in and for taking in first responders. this is the hotel of choice for your category five hurricane. [laughter] shepard: steve harrigan, be by the inn at fifth. another prop for the inn at fifth right there on fifth avenue very near downtown naples. so that's the heart of the city, and what a beautiful place it is on a normal day. not so much today. all this is headed n...

View. these pictures from aptn, associated press television news. just incredible to look out over the landscape there. you wonder what it was like at cudjoe key, once you get there, you're almost to key west. you can almost taste mallory square by then, see the cat lady walking by and waiting for that perfect sunset at mallory square. i wonder, key west on the drier side of the storm, on the best side of the -- on the west side of the storm when it went by. it'll be interesting to see what everything looks like there. i can tell you one thing, they'll fix it up and get right back after it. th...

To wait and see if it actually does happen, shepard. shepard: i think it will. janice dean is with us watching. janice, this is the front edge, the leading eye wall, we presume. >> reporter: that's exactly right. if you look at the radar, you have the strongest winds right now over steve harrigan. and we're saying 115 mile-per-hour sustained winds right mow from the national -- right now from the national hurricane center. that's their latest advisory. and as steve mentioned, i think around 4:50 p.m. eastern time is when he will experience that crazy calm when the eye of the storm actually com...

Miles an hour. central pressure is 939 millibars, so it keeps getting weaker. it's now moving, and we speculated about this earlier, it looked to us on the radar like the storm was moving faster than 12 miles an hour, it is. it's now moving due north, still due north, at 14 miles an hour and expected to pass through naples in the next few minutes and then on to marco island. i meant on to fort myers. the next order of business is to get a live report from the national hurricane center down in miami. and we'll be able to do that at the top of the hour with their chief forecaster down there with...

It. we are going to get another update, a full update at 5 p.m. eastern time with the full coordinates and whether the storm will continue its weakening trend. certainly, that seems to be the case, which is good news. but this is a storm surge story with all these vulnerable coastlines. so that's an ongoing threat especially as we get into the tampa bay area. shepard: no doubt. look at wsvn interviewing someone on the streets in florida. listen to this. >> here we go. we're going to let you get inside, we're going to do the same. >> all right. >> all right. stay safe, we'll be talking to you s...